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Show CREDIT TO ITS BUILDERS Frame Meeting House In Maryland, With Authentic Record From 1683, Is Still Standing. The old Quaker meeting house at Eas-ton, Eas-ton, Md., Is probably the oldest frame building standing In the United States just where It was built and as it was built, without any change, additions addi-tions or subtractions and with an authentic au-thentic record since 1683. An occasional occa-sional replacing of the shingles on the roof and of the weather boarding are all the repairs it has had. Its frame, Inside and woodwork, and some of the weather-boarding are the same as when built about the same time that William Penn, who visited the building, build-ing, was trading with the Indians and laying out Philadelphia. The only preservative used on the wood has been oUr-fashioned whitewash white-wash on the outside. Seven of the original plank seats and the woodwork wood-work Inside have had no paint whatever. what-ever. White oak, white pine cypress and southern pine from the Maryland forests were the woods used. |